Category: Shadowrun 5th

Watching Complex Action and they did a show about interrupt action. Let’s put one more idea out there based on that!

Last Ditch Effort

Cost: 10 Karma

You always come through in a clutch. When you take an interrupt action and it reduces your initiative below 0 before you normal action in an initiative pass, you may still take your normal action at your pre-interrupt action initiative. You may not take any interrupt actions after your initiative has been reduced to zero. If you’ve already acted in an initiative pass and your initiative is reduced to zero by an interrupt action, you do not get an action in the next pass.

You hate all this magic, tech, and spirit crap. You just want a simple life where dragons belong in books! When you resist a power from a creature or person, and the power isn’t a magic spell, attack in the physical roll, or hacking attempt, you have a -2 dice pool penalty on the resistance roll.

Played some Shadowrun over the weekend, and the players encountered some spirits. How about being ready to handle the 6th world in all it’s glory!

In the 6th World

Cost: 10 karma

You don’t need to be welcomed to the 6th world, you’ve lived here all you life! You’re ready for what is about to be thrown at you. When you resist a power from a creature or person, and the power isn’t a magic spell, attack in the physical roll, or hacking attempt, you gain a +2 bonus on the resistance roll.

I had a friend who wanted to have a character how had a real bad history like a shadowruner hunter for the Azzies in Shadowrun. I like the idea, but feel bad rep doesn’t go far enough. How about something new…

You Got a HistoryBonus: 6 Karma per level
Some people did things that can’t get better. Some people blow up people on accident. Some poison the well and don’t look back. Well you’re looking back, and you don’t like what you find. And neither do other people. Whatever you did, your start play with 3 points of Notoriety (p. 372) per level of this quality. You can remove this using normal karma rules for buying off a quality as you do more and more good out in the community paying out your debts to society.

Basic ErrorsBonus: 5 Karma
Some people are good at the hard stuff, but choke when they get simple. A character with Basic Errors suffers no penalties to clutch actions, but attempting to do an action when unhurried such as driving on easy roads or doing a simple computer search for dinner must attempt an edge check. If if the character does not get three successes, then the character fails the simple action resulting in a critical glitch. How often this occurs is up to the GM, but should not occur more than twice per session.

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Type: M Range: SelfDuration: S Drain: F+1

Coach
(Mental)

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Type: M Range: TDuration: S Drain: F + 3
You know Kung-Fu. When you cast this spell, you can choose one active skill and you gain temporary ranks in the skill for as long as you sustain the spell. Muscle Memory focuses the spell on yourself, and Coach is the same spell focuses on another individual in range.

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Type: M Range: SelfDuration: S Drain: FFast Teacher
(Mental)

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Type: M Range: LOSDuration: S Drain: F + 1
Sometimes you got to learn quick or you end up dead fast. When you cast this spell, you can choose one knowledge skill and you gain temporary ranks in the skill for as long as you sustain the spell. Quick learner focuses the spell on yourself, and Fast Teacher is the same spell focuses on another individual in range.